Happy Black (in Data) History Month ❤️🖤💚

We are back and stacked up with five FREE offerings in our first month of 2024 programming!

We’re back!! Thank you for waiting for us to finish hibernating after a great 2023. We continue to thank you, the community, for sticking with us through another changing of seasons and calendars. Speaking of 2024 things, let’s get right into it!! We’re ✨loaded ✨ like a good baked potato for February. 

New This Month!

When we say everything, we mean all of it. Technical workshops, study sessions, code review sessions, and we’re gearing up to offer a leap year special networking and mentorship session too since we got the extra day this year 🔥

Currently, you can sign up for the following sessions, FREE!

🗺️Geospatial Analysis in Python with Lauren Shores, our data science and mentorship lead, on February 8th at 7 PM US ET/ 6 PM CT

🧑‍💻☕ Bring your projects and hang out with our favorite accountability buddy, Auntie Kim the cofounder, at our first Coffee and Code session of the year on February 17th at 10:30 AM US ET/ 9:30 AM CT

📊Building a Portfolio with Tableau will be led by Hana Hanfi, our analytics lead. Come for the learning vibes, leave with a project for your job portfolio on February 22nd at 6 PM US ET/ 5 PM CT

We’ll get you your double dose of Lauren Shores in the last week of February for the code review and networking and mentorship sessions. These will be on February 27th and 29th. If you have python or R code and need help troubleshooting, come see Lauren on Tuesday. And then the leap year Thursday special will be centered around setting career goals in the new year. Stay tuned!!

About Black in Data Week…

If you’ve been following us for a minute, you will notice we haven’t had a Black in Data Week announcement yet for the new year. Usually we commune for a week of Black in data celebrations during Black History Month, but this year we’re going for Black Music History Month 🎶. #BlackInDataWeek2024 will be back in June, 2024. Look out for our date and request for speakers announcements and themes for those interested in attending and participating as presenters.

Bags and Flowers 💐💰🤑

In lieu of community roles and wins shares, we encourage you to look at these two job boards that are run by two great women and champions for underrepresented communities and Black women in technology. A unique feature of both these job boards is that they are vetted before any role can be posted on them.

• Frauvis - Black Women in Tech Community by Naya Moss

• Diversify Tech - Underrepresented in Tech Community by Veni Kunche

For those of you hiring with the new budgets, you can reach out to newsletter@blacktidesdata.com with some contact information to share roles for the community. You’re also encouraged to share wins with us so we can amplify the wins of Black professionals in data!

Stay in touch with us on the platform formerly known as Twitter and LinkedIn for updates and resource shares throughout the month and tell us what else you’d like to learn with and from the community.

Until next month. Take care, data fam! ❤️💚🖤